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FDP Forum / FDP Unplugged - Acoustic Instruments / Got Me Some Fossilized Wooly Mammoth Tusk Bridge Pins

Gene from Tampa Contributing Member ******* Tampa, FL Live! From God's Waiting Room ....	Oct 10th, 2017 06:53 PM   Edit   Profile   Print Topic   Search Topic Yup, Installed them in my D-35 because it deserves them. And they are made of fossilized woolly mammoth tusk!
Chris Greene FDP Host Idaho, USA Nine mile skid on a ten mile ride	Oct 10th, 2017 06:59 PM   Edit   Profile   Print Topic   Search Topic So does that mean they're, essentially, stone? You can tell I don't know much about "fossilized" bridge pins, saddles, nuts, etc. Otherwise, TTIUWP and how do they sound compared to the stock Martin plastic pins?
Gene from Tampa Contributing Member ******* Tampa, FL Live! From God's Waiting Room ....	Oct 10th, 2017 07:04 PM   Edit   Profile   Print Topic   Search Topic Well yes, they are dense like stone. But you pull the Martin out of the case and tell the admiring crowds : " See these? They're fossilized woolly mammoth tusk!"
Gene from Tampa Contributing Member ******* Tampa, FL Live! From God's Waiting Room ....	Oct 10th, 2017 07:07 PM   Edit   Profile   Print Topic   Search Topic As for the tone? I hear no difference. But being able to say "fossillized woolly mammoth tusk" is cool :-)
littleuch Contributing Member ********** ****** Florida	Oct 10th, 2017 07:13 PM   Edit   Profile   Print Topic   Search Topic What you do is give them a detailed and engaging dissertation on Wooly Mammoth Tusk. Keep them in suspense. Then, while everyone holds their breath, strum a chord, but drop the pick in the guitar. Start cursing and shaking the guitar upsidedown.
Chris Greene FDP Host Idaho, USA Nine mile skid on a ten mile ride	Oct 10th, 2017 07:18 PM   Edit   Profile   Print Topic   Search Topic I was curious because many guitar guys more knowledgeable than I say that bridge pins have almost zero bearing on sound. Martin has used plastic pins since what, the 30's? I do like an abalone dot on my bridge pins, however, even if they're plastic. But fossilized woolly mammoth bridge pins is way cooler sounding than an $8 set of plastic pins.
Viera Contributing Member ********** ******** Santee CA I forgot my tagline	Oct 10th, 2017 09:09 PM   Edit   Profile   Print Topic   Search Topic fossilized woolly mammoth tusk fossilized woolly mammoth tusk fossilized woolly mammoth tusk Yeah, that does sound cool. Now if you can just teach that woolly mammoth to play guitar you'll be the talk of the town.
MLC It's not just good.. ...it's good enough.	Oct 11th, 2017 06:23 AM   Edit   Profile   Print Topic   Search Topic I put ebony bridge pins in my Martin. Yeah, you're right, "ebony" is nowhere near as cool sounding as "fossilized woolly mammoth tusk."
hushnel Contributing Member ********** ********* North Florida A Friend of Bill W.	Oct 11th, 2017 10:35 AM   Edit   Profile   Print Topic   Search Topic I tried Fossil mastodon as the saddle, I tried old Ivory too. I'm partial to the sound of corian and have been using it for nuts and saddles. I think I have a set of Mastodon bridge pins in the 000-15S. Too bad T-Rex fossil claws are so hard to come by. You know, for the whole slash metal thing.
Peegoo Contributing Member ********** ********** ****** Enjoying the downtime	Oct 11th, 2017 10:38 AM   Edit   Profile   Print Topic   Search Topic You can never go wrong with any kinda dinosaur squeezin's.
Hammond101 Contributing Member ********** * So. Cal. USA	Oct 11th, 2017 01:24 PM   Edit   Profile   Print Topic   Search Topic Now you can go play Wooly Bully!
Hammond101 Contributing Member ********** * So. Cal. USA	Oct 11th, 2017 01:34 PM   Edit   Profile   Print Topic   Search Topic I just found some fossilized Walrus ivory pins online. Is Walrus more cool than Wooly Mammoth?
Ragtop Contributing Member ********** ****** The older the violin the sweeter the music.	Oct 11th, 2017 03:07 PM   Edit   Profile   Print Topic   Search Topic I don't understand how you get those big tusks, mammoth or walrus, into those little holes?
Hammond101 Contributing Member ********** * So. Cal. USA	Oct 11th, 2017 03:21 PM   Edit   Profile   Print Topic   Search Topic You start with a small reamer and work your way up!
professor Contributing Member ********** ********** ****** North Gnarlyington	Nov 6th, 2017 11:20 AM   Edit   Profile   Print Topic   Search Topic I just whittle down some chicken bones.
Cal-Woody USA/California Why do I keep fixing things that work?	Nov 6th, 2017 07:04 PM   Edit   Profile   Print Topic   Search Topic Now if you found some Raptor claws, that would be the schiz-nitz! Lol It's gotta be fossilized Professor! NO half-baked deli stuff! Lol

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